David E. Wheeler napsal(a):
On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:06, Zdenek Kotala wrote:

It is simple. SQL standard does not specify notation for that (chapter 11.34). But there is proposed notation:

CREATE COLLATION <collation name> FOR <character set specification> FROM <existing collation name> [ <pad characteristic> ] [ <case sensitive> ] [ <accent sensitive> ] [ LC_COLLATE <lc_collate> ] [ LC_CTYPE <lc_ctype> ]

<pad characteristic> := NO PAD | PAD SPACE
<case sensitive> := CASE SENSITIVE | CASE INSENSITIVE
<accent sensitive> := ACCENT SENSITIVE | ACCENT INSENSITIVE


You can specify for each collation if it is case sensitive or not and collation function should be responsible to correctly handle this flag.

Wooo! Now if only i could apply that on a per-column basis. Still, it'll be great to have this for a whole database.

The first step is per database, because it is relative easy. Collation per-column is very difficult. It requires a lot of changes (parser, planer, executor...) in whole source code, because you need to keep collation information together with text data.

It is reason why this task is split to severals part.

                Zdenek

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